may day anarchism italian style [Archive]

Ravachol

11th May 2012, 00:23

They made sure to hit American Apparel, a company that boasts of operating the largest clothing factory in the North America, and employing the best-paid garment workers in the world. Way to stand up for the 99 percenters, Bloc-heads.

:laugh: Jesus christ what a knucklehead, 'oh no, they are the largest clothing factory and they employ soooo many happy, happy people'. Journalists like this make me wanna puke. In fact, fuck that, almost all journalists make me wanna light a stack of newspapers on fire.

L’anarchia seemed the prevailing political sentiment in Carrara; I heard even wealthy quarry owners call themselves anarchists. It would have been the dominant political force as well, if it could have while continuing to be itself. But the anarchists proudly refused to vote: Non votiamo bumper stickers were everywhere, and the communists (“Mercedes Benz communists,” some sneered) controlled city hall.

So it's a good thing if wealthy quarry owners call themselves 'anarchists' (which I highly doubt) but we all laugh and sneer at "Mercedes Benz 'communists'"?

I also hate it when liberals try to coat themselves with 'true radical' credentials by praising militant violence, as long as it's in the past. The Spanish Civil war? A-okay. The assasination of king Umberto I? Great and inspiring. Some folks in black breaking a window? DON'T ALIENATE THE 99% GUYZ, WEALTHY QUARRY OWNERS NEED TO IDENTIFY WITH US TOO!

This is most telling

Such dustups were now old history, and the assassinations and massacres even older. Primo maggio had the reverent, nostalgic air of Memorial Day ceremonies, only more festive.

So wait a hundred years and the anarchist bogey will turn mellow and respectable. Perhaps we could speed the process by declaring ourselves all anarchists and inviting the Black Bloc-heads to the party.

Anarchism, acceptable as long as it is a nostalgic ode of the past, complete with brass bands and wraith-laying. What these folks applaud is an air of defeat of resignation. Not saying those in Carrara are doing anything wrong (in fact, If I'm correct they're the prime base for the USI and a comrade of mine went there several times), it's just that I see too many people incapable of breaking this kind of 'this is what we need, not that black-bloc ruckus!' veneer, which is just a sympathetic ode to the past as long as it stays the past. It's the same with a whole host of social democrats praising Marx as a man who 'fought against injustices now eliminated'. :rolleyes: